Francis Marion Trussel Jr., age 21, from Lincoln, Illinois, Logan county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 1St Battalion, 12Th Cavalry, 3 Bct, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Saturday, May 26, 2007
Death details: Died in Tahrir, Iraq from an explosive
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Daniel Gene Gresham, age 23, from Lincoln, Illinois, Logan county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 797Th Ordnance Co (Eod), 52D Ord Group, (Mnc-I), Fort Sam Houston, Tx
Date of death: Thursday, February 24, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Ad Dawr, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
William Sherman Boyer, age 23, from Logan County Illinois.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, July 20, 1950
Death details: On July 20, 1950, the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was holding a defensive line in South Korea overlooking the Taejon Airport, northeast of the city. When enemy tanks broke through the line near the airport, U.S. troops were ordered to fall back through Taejon. The 3rd Battalion was ordered to lead the convoy out of Taejon, but ran into a series of collapsed structures and roadblocks that broke up the column. U.S. forces were unable to break through these roadblocks, and to avoid capture soldiers moved off-road and began filtering through the countryside in small groups. Corporal William Sherman Boyer entered the U.S. Army from Illinois and served in the Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on or around July 20 during the withdrawal from Taejon, though the exact details surrounding his loss are unknown. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody following the war, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Corporal Boyer memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Pantagraph (1954), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Russell W. Jones, age 23, from Lawndale, Illinois, Logan county.
Parents: Ernest Jones
Service era: World War II
Schools: Mt. Pulaski Township High
Date of death: Thursday, November 16, 1944
Death details: Finding of death, buried in mediterranean sea; pilot of a B-26 Marauder medium bomber and flight leader of a veteran Army Air Forces group, lost with his crew over Northern Italy while on a bombing mission
Cemetery: Garrison Chapel Cemetery, Warrick County, Indiana
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Mt. Pulaski News Times
Homer Y. Harris, age 29, from Illinois, Logan county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, September 1, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Maple Hill, Fairfield, Illinois
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Zachary T. Fuiten, age 27, from Lake Fork, Illinois, Logan county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, November 10, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Steenbergen in Mount Pulaski, Illinois
Source: American Battle Monuments Commission, Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com